The EU mini-summit held in Brussels on the November 29 agreed a deal to keep more refugees in Turkey and out of the EU. What does this mean for those already in Turkey, now excluded from the EU’s protection?

Migration Management Removal Centre in Kumkapı, Istanbul. Photo supplied by author.The summit in November was organised, at Turkey’s insistence, to encourage closer cooperation between the EU and Turkey, to control migration westwards and to ‘re-energise’ the process towards Turkey’s accession to the EU.

Syrian army troops recaptured a new village north of Aleppo on Feb. 8, bringing troops and allied militiamen to within a few kilometers of the Turkish border, while around 30,000 Syrians have massed at the Turkish-Syrian border due to a major Russian-backed offensive in the area, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said

Germany and Turkey have pledged to exert joint efforts to secure NATO’s involvement in curbing the refugee flow to Europe, while also jointly calling for further global action to ensure Russia’s compliance with a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at protecting civilians in war-torn Syria

Having fled the conflict area around Aleppo tens of thousands of people are now gathered on the border between Syria and Turkey, waiting for the Turkish authorities to open up the Öncüpınar border crossing. Not just Turkey but Europe too has a responsibility to take action here, commentators admonish.

Tens of thousands of Syrians remain stranded at the border with Turkey today (8 February) after escaping a Russia-backed government attack on Aleppo, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to visit Ankara.

A deputy head of Turkey’s ruling party has filed an application with the Norwegian Nobel Committee to nominate Kilis for the Nobel Peace Prize given that it is now hosting as many Syrians as its total population

It wasn’t long ago that Turkish foreign policy was the talk of the town. Defined by the catchy phrase of “zero problems with the neighbors,” Turkey aimed to both improve relations with its neighborhood and slowly emerge as the…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said Russia will “face the consequences” if it continues to violate Turkey’s airspace, two days after Ankara declared that Russia had again violated its airspace despite multiple warnings

France’s Constitutional Council: An Event Cannot Be Considered A Genocide Unless It Is Established As Such By A Competent Court

On January 8, 2016, the French Constitutional Council, France’s highest Court (equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court), pronounced a landmark decision in a trial wherein an NGO founded by the Turkish community in France called “Association Pour La Neutralité de L’Enseignement de l’histoire Turque Dans Les Programmes Scolaires” (ANEHTPS) –Association For The Impartial Teaching Of Turkish History– was involved as a third party claimant. In this decision, the Constitutional Council validated the Gayssot Act which criminalizes the denial of Holocaust.